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'The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. The law embodies the story of a nation's development...it cannot be dealt with as if it contained the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics' - (Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1841 to 1935). Pro Aequitate Dicere

On 6th January, following an article by Colonel Richard Kemp in the Daily Mail, I posted in some detail about Prosecuting War Heroes. That post recognised the matters of serious concern raised by Col. Kemp's article. An equally serious counter-concern is that the government must not become above the law and there is at least the appearance of it trying to achieve just that. The aim of the Prime Minister seems to be to achieve a position where it will be extremely difficult for claims to be brought in relation to military matters no matter what the source of the
claim.

Government has, for example, strenuously fought in the courts against claims brought by former British soldiers in relation to procurement of equipment where those decisions were taken in the safety of Whitehall - (post of 22nd June 2013).

The government appears to have an unacceptably unbalanced approach to this whole subject.